In Beauty Bright: Poems

by Gerald Stern and Dean Acheson

Book Overview

The lyric poems of In Beauty Bright, although marked by the same passion and swiftness as Gerald Stern's previous work, move into an area of knowledge--even wisdom--that reflects a long life of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393086445
• ISBN13: 9780393086447
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Fragments of a great life

Dean Acheson was secretary of state for Harry Truman. He had a brilliant mind, wrote like Voltaire and was perfectly educated. For instance, you cannot read nowadays memoirs of anybody who knew Winston Churchill without reading about Winston's drinking. Acheson does not do that: it is not his style: he would rather let you ponder the deep meaning of a joke that Winston played on Eden (this in Sketches from life, part of his memoirs). This little book of fragments gives a glimpse of how he reacted to the death of Kennedy and the rise of the 60s generation. "We have lived, he says, in the barren years of disillusionment-years when the cry was: What is the truth?"For people who like history and refined expression of thought.